Contractor at SAMMC arrested in child porn case

Updated 10:53 pm, Monday, October 29, 2012

A civilian contractor working at San Antonio Military Medical Center has been arrested on a federal charge of receiving child pornography and is being investigated over allegations that he had sexual contact with a 10-year-old girl.

Victor M. Zamarron, 54, was arrested last week, more than a month after a routine information technology inspection Sept. 11 found that he was downloading child porn through the government computer system, according to a criminal complaint affidavit.

The IT department gained remote access to Zamarron's account and found about 10 child porn images that he reportedly downloaded, the affidavit said.

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A day later, the FBI interviewed Zamarron at home, and he admitted that he had accessed child porn at work about 20 times, using search terms he knew would lead him to it.

He also said he downloaded child porn at his home computer once or twice a day and that he had the child-porn Web sites saved under his “favorites” tab.

Investigators found thousands of child porn images on his home computers. At the local FBI office Sept. 13, the affidavit said, Zamarron admitted he had lied to agents and said he had more than 3,000 images of child porn in 20 catalogued folders in his computer.

He was also found to have taken several pictures of clothed preteen girls with his mobile phone, the affidavit said.

Investigators said Zamarron admitted having sexual contact with one of the girls when she was 10 and continued through 11. He told agents that he is sexually attracted to girls between 4 and 16.